Feeding attachment for crown-cork-making machines



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A. BOGDANFFY "FEEDING ATTACHMENT FOR CROWN CORK MAKING HAQJHINES Filed June 19. 1916 anuewl'o' slimy 1e13 Z Patented July 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE,

ALEXANDER BOGDANFFY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FEEDING ATTACHMENT FOR CROWN-CORK-MA KING.MAOHTN ES.

Application filed June 19, 1916.. Serial No. 104,525.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER Boe- DANFFY, a subject of the King of Hungary, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeding Attachments for Crown- Cork-Making Machines, of which the-following is a specification.

The invention relates to machines used in connection with the manufacture of bottle, jar, can and the like closures of the cap variety, including those termed crown corks and more particularly, to a hopper or feedingv device for the sealing disks of cork or similar material.

The invention has for its object to properly deliver, from a mass of disks placed in the hopper, individual disks into a feed chute wherein they are suitably stacked and then transported oneafter the other to the assembling elements of the cap-making machines. The invention has for a further object to provide simple means for effecting the separation of chips and broken disks and of suitably stacking in, efficient manner the usable ones, all amming and misplaclng of the disks being obviated. Moreover, the ap paratus is so designed that surplus disks remaining in the hopper may be conveniently and readily removed.

The natureof the invention will be best understood when described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a vertical section thru the apparatus, and Fig. 2 a side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of the reciprocatory plate or screen, and Fig. 4 a vertical section therethru taken on the line- M, Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a plan of the chute with the reciprocatory plate removed.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts thruout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a suitable frame mounted on a standard 11 or the like, which provides a bearing 12 for a driving ulley 13. To the top of frame 10 is hinged ly secured a receptacle or retainer 14 for the cork disks or the like (not shown), which are delivered thereto at one en thru a hopper 15 attached to the said receptacle. The said hopper is provided with an adjustable slide 16 to vary thefeed; and by securing the said hopper atone end of the receptacle, the disks will be disposed in a more or less thin layer over a plate or screen 17 which forms the bottom of the receptacle, and jamming of the disksis' flar or other openings 18 of smaller diameter than the normal diameter of the cork disks to separate chips and broken. disks from the mass of the receptacle, the same falling downwardly thru the supporting frame 10. Plate 17, moreover, preferably made concave over a portion of its face to concentrate" the disks toward the center where an outlet tube or opening 19 is provided and of a diameter sufficiently large to pass a single disk.

In .order to effect a movementof the disks toward this outlet, the plate is arranged, as by mounting the same to slide in slots 20 of the walls of the receptacle 14, to have a reciprocatory movement in a direction at right angles to the a'visof the outlet 19. This may be effected in any suitable manner, for example, by means of an eccentricpin 21, driven thru the pulley 13 and engaging a slotted member 22 attached to the under side of the plate 17 The disks will thereby be moved over the surface of plate 17 toward the outlet 19: and to avoid interference by disks attempting to enter the outlet in a direction other than in the line of movement of the plate, diametricallyppposed members, as, for example pins 23, extend upwardly from the plate and are located in proximity to the said opening in a plane at right angles to the line of movement.

As the disks leave the opening 19, they are received by a suitable chute, for example, a chute 25 provided with an upper sta tionary funnel member 26 extending over the outlet 19 and of sufficient area at the top to accommodate the reciprocatory motion of the plate 17, the diameter at the bottom of the funnel being the same as that of the chute proper 25., and which is just sufiicient to properly accommodate the disks. I prefer, however in order to, avoid misplaceinent of the d sks during the movement of a disk from the end of the outlet 19 to the chute proper 25, to provide means to maintain substantially the'correct diameter for the P oper l ca i of th isks du i this period of their travel. To this end, movable members, for example diametrically-opposed and upwardly-extending spring members 27 are secured to the out side of the chute portion 25 and extend within the interior of the funnel 26 thru vertical slots 28 in the wall 0t said funnel. Theupper ends of these members embrace the outlet 19., and the. whole spring memhere this partake of the motion of the P t 1' deriligiits re preeeti n The tanee 'baweeaa two spring memb ers is su chthat theproper diameter for the disks will be substantially maintained, and no misplacement and consequent jamming of the disk can take place.

I claim:

1. a device of the character described, the combination with a receptacle for a mass of sealing of cork or the like; of a movable plate provided with an outlet to discharge said disks; and an outlet chute to receive and stack the same, and consisting of a stationary portion and a movable portion, the latter being adapted to be engaged by said movable plate.

' 2. In a device of the character described, the combination with areceptacle for a mass of sealing disks of cork or the like; or a movable plate. provided with an outlet to discharge said disks; and an outlet chute comprising a stationary portion, a stationaryfunnel; connected therewith and registering with the outlet of said plate, and movable members mounted in said funnel to cooperate with the outlet of said plate.

3. In a device of the. character described, the combination with a receptacle for a mass of sealing disks of cork or the like, and. having a discharge opening; and an outlet chute comprising a stationary portion, a stationary funnel connected therewith and provided with diametrically opposed vertical slots, and spring members mounted in said funnel opposite said slots; of an intermediate, reciprocatory plate provided with an outlet sufiifciently large to pass a disk, said outlet engaging the ends of said spring members.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination with a disk receptacle; a movable plate mounted in said receptacle and provided with an opening sufficiently large to pass a disk; of aframe supporting s id ptacle and p at the t e b in hingedly attached to the former; and a chute carried by said frame and registering with said outlet.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with a disk receptacle and a heppe o. iv r sk 0 aid e pta a reciprocatory plate mounted in said receptacle and provided with. an opening displaced with respect to the outlet of the k ep r and ufi et y 2 s e Pa a disk; of a frame supporting sai receptacle, plate and hopper, the latter being hingedly at tached to the former; and a chute carried said frame and registering with the outlet,

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 17th day of June, A. D. 1916.

ALEXANDER BOGDANFFY. 

